CHAPTEE I. 



THE IMPLEMENTS OF THE FAEM. 



Drainage implements. Brick and tile machines. Cultivating imple- 

 ments. Ploughs, Steam tillage. Harrows, Boilers. Sowing 

 machines. Horse hoes. Harvesting machines, Reapers, Horse-rakes. 

 Barn machinery, Threshing, Winnowing and Dressing machines. 

 Chalf-cutters, corn and cake crushers, turnip cutters and pulpers. 

 Steaming apparatus. Hay and corn drying machines. Dairy imple- 

 ments. Live stock furniture. Carts, waggons. Prime movers. 



THESE include several machines proper to be enume- 

 rated, which, however, are not necessarily required by 

 every farmer. Several of the tools, or rather the machines, 

 which are required only occasionally, are hired ; steam 

 ploughs and cultivating machines, draining machines, 

 even threshing machines are not necessarily owned by every 

 farmer. He can obtain the use of them, and of hands 

 accustomed to work them, from men or companies who let 

 them out on hire. Steam engines for working these 

 machines are also to be had on hire. And although in the 

 case of large occupations it is not advisable to be dependent 

 in this way on hired machinery, yet for smaller farms the 

 capital which would be invested in the purchase of them 

 may be well dispensed with. The quantity of machinery 

 found on most large farms is indeed rendered necessary 

 now by the difficulty of obtaining labourers, and by the 

 increasing cost of wages; but the enormous difference 

 between the present day and the circumstances of fifty 



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